Stack-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package liblouis  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-LIBLOUIS-3327855
  • published22 Feb 2023
  • disclosed4 Jun 2018

Introduced: 4 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-11685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Amazon-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Amazon-Linux:2.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream liblouis package and not the liblouis package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c.